Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.